HOOPS

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HOOPS
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Visualization Strategy

• Meet visualization needs of diverse OEM customers
• Enable and accelerate data visualizationacross
  all businesses
• Deliver small to largeamounts of data
  overnetworks of varyingbandwidth

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3D Visualization Products

• HOOPS 3D Application Framework
• Rapidly develop 3D graphics-based applications
• HOOPS 3D Stream Toolkit
• Fast data streamingand compression
• HOOPS/ACIS 3D Part Viewer
• Free software for viewing andmanipulating ACIS
  .SAT files

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Cost-effective

• No up-front evaluation license fees
• Saves resources and costs
• Eliminates time spend developing code, debugging,
  and testing
• Faster time-to-market
• Additional source of revenue

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HOOPS/3dAF

• Enables rapid development of 3D graphics-based
  applications
• Extensible framework
• Extensive graphics functionality
• Powerful large model visualization
• Integrate with HOOPS Stream Toolkit
• Streaming I/O
• .HSF file interoperability
• Industry-proven

Screen capture by HOOPS customer Tecoplan.
Provided courtesy of TSA.
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Extensible Framework

• Source-code level reference applications
• Create highly customizable applications
• C, C, and FORTRAN
• Environment flexibility
• Cross-platform support
• Windows
• UNIX
• Linux

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Modular Architecture
GUI Toolkit
Events
HOOPS 3D Application Framework
Mouse Keyboard
HOOPS/MVO
HOOPS/GUI
HOOPS/ Stream
Display
Print
HOOPS/3dGS
HOOPS/GM Bridge
3DACIS Modeler
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Tessellation
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Powerful Graphics

• Optimal rendering performance
• Large model visualization
• Level-of-detail support
• Spriting
• Culling
• Extensive functionality
• Sophisticated interactivity
• Rich 2D and text support
• Advanced hardcopy output

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Visualization 3D HOOPS/3dAF
3D ACIS Modeler Integration
Several Documented Examples
STREAMING Of 3D Objects
POWERFUL 3D GRAPHICS SYSTEM
GUI Integration MFC, Motif, QT, Java
INTERNET Plug-in Active/X
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Streaming

• Stream highly compressed files
• 3D data
• 2D data
• Custom data
• 2D, parametric information,assembly structure,
  analysisresults, etc.
• Robust stream format (.hsf)
• Advanced geometriccompression
• No data pre-processing
• Over networks, the Internet, client-to-client

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The OpenHSF Initiative

• Launched October 2001
• Joint effort between Spatial and TechSoft America
• Designed to provide an open solution to the
  visual interoperability problem
• Products shipping that support OpenHSF more in
  development

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Supporters
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AIMLER
HRYSLER
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The HSF Format
Other Opcodes

• File description and compression
• Comment
• File info
• Start / Stop compression
• Termination
• Data association
• Dictionary
• Global / local keys
• Explicit / implicit tags
• Scene graph
• Open / Close segment
• Repeat object

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The HSF Format
Architecture of an application reading HSF
HOOPS Stream Toolkit
HOOPS3D Application Framework
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Thank You.